West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-01-06

We're provided with bombs, spears, blow
< ms, and muSketS. and the man who
was TO sprinkle them with hot water had
been shot dead at their first fire. As
soon as we got our gun over. some one
picked up the nozzle OF the hose pipe and
turned il loose on every boat within
reach. But for tho hot water the fellows
might have carried us hy boarding for
two hundred TO ten is big odds. such
screaming aud shouting and shrieking as
ihcy INDUCED in when the boiling hot
water spattorcd over their halT-nakcd
bodies wHs paudemonium OF itself. and
all the time we kept playing on them
with the guns and the clrbines The fight
could not have lasted over seven or eight
misutcs, and rs soon as they began 20
draw OF ran my gun to the port side.
loaded with she'll, and sent the missile
right through the juuk's stern Half n
do en- fellows rushed out OF the hold and
jumped overheard, and | gave her two
more. When the third was fired there
was an explosion, probably OF barrel of
powder which lifted her decks thirty
feet high and split her wide open. She
sank right there before our ewes, and the
walls OF the wounded wretches who float
cd about for minute or two were dread
ful h helr
Captain Tabor felt that such trcachcry
as the natives had shown deserved the
severcSt punishmcut, ard we tura,d
both guns loos, on the village. and fired
forty or fifty shells. When daylight
came not human being was in sight
Portions Of the junk had been driven on
the beach, and the native, had fed and
left everything behind them. The sh1rks
were probably attracted TO the spot by
the sounds OF firing, aud they certainly
had "a rich feast | never saw them so
TIN k before nor since an rs they fished
up the bodies from the bottom around
us three or four would seize and tug at n
single enc and quickly tear IL TO pieces.
| was sent ashore with flag of truce,
with four armed men 20 make 1t re-
spected, and on tha sands found the
body OF one Of our ilrcmen. and not far
OF that of our cook After some hard
work indl'ol the head man TO come I'm
out of the forest aud talk to me. Ills
name was Wung Hang and n more hum
BILE man never met. He had laid il all
10 the people on tho Junk The natives
among our crew had conspired with the
fellows at Ke-Lung TO secure passage
aboard and overpowcr Us. When this
game could not be worked, owing to the
ict sal of the Captain TO take them, they
followed on after US in the Junk and
found n cheerful co-opcrator in old
Wing Hang, the trader. He denied
taking any part in the affIir per onally,
ana added that he did his best TO dis
suade his people from making the attack.
His loss according 10 his own figures,
was sixty odd killed, while a'mo,t every
one else was wounded or sea dcd. Fiy,
men got ashore from the Junk. which
had nearly fifty men aboard Of her.
/ We were in = situation 60 take every
+ dollars worth Of goods the old rasca
had In his store houses, but Captain
/ Tabor had no intention OF blasting hi,
/ prestige in that fashion. We held the
! trader to the contract already made, anC
landed our goods and put his aboard
lie had been soundly thrashcd, and like
/ plenty of otEer men under the same cir
/ cumstances he respected the thraehers
I He supplied us with the best OF pro
visions. detailed natives 10 do all oui
work, and when we were ready to leav,
/ he supplied Us with five natives, and
/ gave Captain Tabor full power TO decap
itatc them at the first signs OF disobe
dience. During tn, next three years. ol
until | severed my connection with tn,
steamer We got around 10 the islnno
about once in six months, and old Wung
/ Hang always had a good bit Of cargc
ready for Us, anil would deal with no on,
else Ne'o I0rk StH.